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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think at 80K a year for a private school, it’s changed what people expect.[/quote]

OP here. I figured this would be the first response. But, for $80k, don’t you want your kid to be more interesting than just technically capable?[/quote]

Assuming 4 classes/semester, $80k/yr comes out to about $10k per class. Why spend $10,000 on some fluffy intro to world lit class when you can just read the same half dozen books on your own time?[/quote]

Because people don't read them on their own time, and because if they do, they don't talk about them with a PhD in the subject. [/quote]

Into to world lit is likely taught by an adjunct or grad student.[/quote]

Not at a liberal arts college.  [/quote]

If you can get basically the same introductory literature class taught by an adjunct for $100 at a local community college, why still pay $10,000 for the same class at the overpriced liberal arts college? If you have to take out loans all this fluffy general ed is just not good value for the money.[/quote]

Even if you don't take out loans I'd still argue that all these fluffy BS liberal arts classes aren't worth it. [/quote]

If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.

My husband has an industry-specific degree while I have a liberal arts degree (my graduate degree is more industry specific). There are certain things he doesn’t know that make me feel sorry for him. He’s really good at what he does, but he doesn’t really know what he missed by not having a liberal arts foundation.

If you think college is about training for a job vs being an educated person, you wouldn’t get it. [/quote]

What you don’t get is that you don’t need expensive courses or a liberal arts degree to be an educated person. It is perfectly possible to get that “liberal arts foundation” without paying big bucks for it.[b] And if you’re not willing to seek out that readily available knowledge on your own, then you didn’t need it and wouldn’t have benefited from spending big bucks on those college courses anyway.[/b][/quote]

Ding ding ding [/quote]

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